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Safe Reintroduction of Feeding Food Waste to Pigs a Sustainable Option

2015-12-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

EU - A new study shows that if the European Union lifted the pigswill ban imposed following 2001's foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, and harnessed technologies developed in East Asian countries for 'heat-treating' our food waste to safely turn it into pig feed, around 1.8 million hectares of land could be saved from being stripped for grain and soybean-based pig feed production - including over quarter of a million hectares of Brazilian forest and savannah.

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